Dancing in the Street

When you observe people; pedestrians or workers in our urban environment, you see people dancing. People dancing in the street. People adapt their movements and motor skills to each other, to their situation and their environment.

What dance exactly is, is surrounded by a certain mystery. Not only man dances, also animals can be caught performing dancing. Even trees or water could be described as ‘being dancing’. Dance is briefly explained; ‘performing a rhythmic movement of the body, according to the measure of – but not necessarily – music or vocals’. What we define as dance depends on social, cultural, aesthetic, artistic and moral considerations in society.
In addition to the rhythmic aspect, a dance also has an element of repetition. A dance seems reproducible or a construct from a combination of designed movement figures, performed by the dancers. The set of figures you dance through, the patron, is called a choreography. Modern contemporary dance challenges all this and complements the existing definition with new additions. In performance art, new additions are constantly added, whereby even traffic movements, movements of devices and machines also become dance partners.